Retail & Commercial

First Financial Bancorp (FFBC) in Cincinnati has retooled the management structure of its bank.

Many banks are trying to lure newly affluent age groups with high-tech services, but they might have better luck adopting a mom-and-pop approach, according to research from corporate anthropologist Andrea Simon.

Shon Hopwood has taken an unusual path: from bank heists to prison to law school … and now a prestigious federal clerkship.

The surge of institutional money into banking stocks is likely to continue for at least another quarter, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.

Wells Fargo's (WFC) regional president of Florida operations has been promoted to a national executive.

Regulators are widely expected Wednesday to unveil far less stringent standards than an earlier proposal for the "qualified residential mortgages" that are exempt from new risk-retention requirements for securitized loans.

An executive at Calvert Financial in Ashland, Mo., has admitted to using funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to buy a luxury condominium.

Law firm Ballard Spahr is preparing for an increase in consumer lawsuits in New York prompted by new state and federal regulations.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking at least $6 billion from JPMorgan Chase (JPM) to settle civil claims the bank sold bad mortgage bonds to government-backed finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Three of the four largest mortgage servicers failed to meet Fannie Mae's minimum servicing requirements in the first half of 2013, according to a Fannie report released Tuesday.